solemnity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of being deeply serious and sober or solemn.

   The solemnity of a funeral.

2. 2
   noun

   An instance or example of solemn behavior; a rite or ceremony performed with reverence.

   Great was the cauſe; our old ſolemnities / From no blind zeal or fond tradition riſe, / But ſav'd from death, our Argives yearly pay / Theſe grateful honours to the God of Day.

3. 3
   noun

   a trait of dignified seriousness

4. 4
   noun

   a solemn and dignified feeling

From solemn + -ity, from Middle English solemnity (“observance of formality and ceremony”), frequently in the phrases in solemnity, with solemnity, which from Old French solemnite, from Latin sollemnitās, from sollemnis. (Compare solemn.)

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